fail-over as opposed to round-robin

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Wed, 17 May 2006 ahall at madasafish.com wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Can the LVS provide a fail-over type of redundancy, as well as a round-robin type?
>
> That is, if I have two servers in my virtual "pool" can I direct all traffic to
> just one server until it fails, and then all traffic will be directed to the
> other server?

the idea of LVS is to spread the load between hosts, so this 
won't work. What you want is failover eg Linux-HA

Joe

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